Triebold, Lajoie Win Triple Crown Again
8 Sep
Andrew Triebold and Steve Lajoie have done it again … and again … and, now, again.
The canoe racing duo from spring Arbor, Michigan and Mirabel, Quebec, respectively, repeated as canoe racing’s Triple Crown winners with their victory in last weekend’s Classique Internationale de Canots in Quebec.
As they did in 2008, Triebold and Lajoie this year won New York’s General Clinton Regatta in May and Michigan’s Weyerhaeuser AuSable Canoe Marathon in July along with the Quebec race, winning canoe racing’s Triple Crown for the second straight year.
At the Classique, the pair proved the fastest team in the water over each of the race’s three stages, which are contested over three days and 120 miles of water. They won the race with a cumulative time of 11 hours, 44 minutes, and 45 seconds, bettering runners-up Frédéric and Guillaume Blais of St. Boniface, Quebec who clocked 12:58:21.
Full results of the event are HERE.
